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  2. North Africa - Wikipedia

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    The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

  3. Ancient Africa - Wikipedia

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    Map of Ancient Egypt and nomes. After the desertification of the Sahara, settlement became concentrated in the Nile Valley, where numerous sacral chiefdoms appeared.The regions with the largest population pressure were in the Nile Delta region of Lower Egypt, in Upper Egypt, and also along the second and third cataracts of the Dongola Reach of the Nile in Nubia. [5]

  4. History of North Africa - Wikipedia

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    Satellite imagery of North Africa. North Africa is a relatively thin strip of land between the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean, stretching from Moroccan Atlantic coast to Egypt. The region has no set definition, and varies from source to source. Generally included are, from west to east, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. [1]

  5. Muslim conquest of the Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean area after the end of the Byzantine rule in Northern Africa. By 709, all of the top half of North Africa was under the control of the Arab caliphate. [15] The only possible exception was Ceuta at the African Pillar of Hercules. Gibbon declares: "In that age, as well as in the present, the kings of Spain were possessed of the ...

  6. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Abstract imagery, widened subsistence strategies, and other "modern" behaviors have been discovered from that period in Africa, especially South, North, and East Africa. The Blombos Cave site in South Africa, for example, is famous for rectangular slabs of ochre engraved with geometric designs. Using multiple dating techniques, the site was ...

  7. Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    'the Arab west') and Northwest Africa, [5] is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb also includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara. [note 1] As of 2018, the region had a population of over 100 million people.

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  9. Maghrebi Jews - Wikipedia

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    After the Allied invasion of North Africa, Tunisia was directly occupied by German forces in November 1942. The Nazis immediately arrested Moise Borgel , the president of the Tunis Jewish community, along with other prominent Jews, [ 41 ] before implementing a regime of forced-labor, property confiscation, hostage-taking, mass extortion ...